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My colleague Amy Bruckman and her student Betsy diSalvo have a really great project going on this summer, called Glitch. Betsy is interested in how African-American males engage with technology and why so few pursue computing as a career. She notes that African-American males play video games more than any other gender-ethnicity demographic groups, and yet are one of the most under-represented groups in computing majors and careers. To address this discrepancy, Betsy and Amy are training a group of African-American teen age boys to be game testers, and in so doing, getting them to engage with how the games they love are built.